The people of Fountain Valley have been stuck with the same trash hauler, Rainbow, since 1957 because all of the City Councils in the years since have continued a ridiculous evergreen contract with Rainbow Environmental Services.
Why in the world would these politicians willfully choose to rip off their constituents by forcing them to pay more for trash hauling? I imagine that Rainbow has been stuffing the Council Members’ campaign coffers since 1957. Continue reading
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County Prevails in Complaint over Trash Facility Permit
(Santa Ana, CA) — The director of the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) this week upheld a review by County regulators of the operating permit issued to Rainbow Environmental Services’ trash facility in Huntington Beach.
CalRecycle Director Scott Smithline vacated orders issued earlier this year by an administrative hearing officer who faulted the County’s permit review process for the facility. A comment letter had been submitted by officials with the Ocean View School District concerned about the trash operation’s impact on nearby Oak View Elementary School. Continue reading
We already busted Fountain Valley Mayor Michael Vo for refusing to allow competitive bidding for Fountain Valley’s waste hauling. He took a campaign contribution from Rainbow Waste – which got what they paid for as the trash contract in Fountain Valley continues to be evergreen – and the result is one of the highest monthly trash pick-up rates in Orange County, as we posted here.
Now we have discovered that Vo is at it again. This time he accepted a campaign contribution from Clear Channel, an advertising company that wants to place a new digital billboard by the Fountain Valley Water Tank, located at Euclid – with visibility from the 405 Freeway. Continue reading